This electric BMW from the '90s was impressive even by today's standards

Though electric cars have only really picked up in popularity recently, there have been several other concepts and designs that have paved the road for the amazing cars we have today. The BMW E1 is one of those cars.

You probably won't remember the E1 because it never saw production. It was more of a show of what BMW's engineers and designers were capable of at the time, which was actually a lot.